Tom Lynch

The cartoon editor from the New Yorker hits town with the magazine's newest anthology, "The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker," a 2,004 cartoon-long mammoth that spans eighty years of the publication's history. This book, edited by Mankoff along with David Remnick, seems destined to be the next big coffee-table phenomenon, with sardonic humor that reflects America's past--through the eyes of Manhattan. Essays written by seminal New Yorker contributors, including Roger Angell and John Updike, introduce the decades of comics, adding gravity to an assortment of satirical jabs already plunging deep into the country's flowing veins. The cartoons are presented chronologically, so the massive set works as an illustrated history book, taking the reader from the first cartoons published to Internet scribbles with dogs. Mankoff struck gold, but if you're working with on a cartoon anthology from the New Yorker, it's pretty hard to totally screw up.

Robert Mankoff discusses "The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker" on October 21 at Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State, (312)747-4080 at 6pm. Free.

(2004-10-20)

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